ATLANTA — Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat says a fire inside Fulton County Jail sent nine people to the hospital on Friday night.
The sheriff confirmed that five detainees and four sheriff’s office employees were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with injuries related to smoke inhalation.
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All of those people are stable, but a sheriff’s office lieutenant and a detainee have been intubated.
Labat said that a detainee out for free time gathered plastic trash bags and a plastic bag with Styrofoam food trays in the shower on the seventh floor of the jail’s north tower and set them on fire. He says that the detainee will be charged.
He was one of the detainees taken to the hospital.
All 118 detainees on that floor of the jail were moved to the south tower.
NewsChopper 2 flew over the jail and saw a large number of emergency vehicles, including ambulances, surrounding the jail.
Officials have not confirmed any damage to the jail.
There is no word on how the fire started.
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